Tasting the Body and Blood of Christ

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My personal favorite... Taste. Taste is such a beautiful thing in our lives. We, as humans, survive off of eating and drinking, which means we are constantly tasting different things all throughout our lives, the good and the bad...

Throughout Religion in the Kitchen : Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions, written by Elizabeth Pérez, she touches upon the importance of religious cooking, which leads me to my point on how religions have certain food or drinks that are taken during religious ceremonies that are extremely important to those who engage in them. 

 Within the religion of Christianity, on the first Sunday of every month Christians engage communion. During this religious act bread and wine is passed around. When they take a bite of the bread, it is supposed to represent the body of Christ, and when they drink the wine, it is supposed to represent his blood as he was crucified on the cross. As a result communion is done in the remembrance of each the body and the blood of Christ. It is a ritual done, like I said, once a month so that Christians never forget. 

 This is a perfect example of how taste can be directly correlated back to religions have sacred meaning to them. Every time a Christian drink the wine and eats the bread the taste has a sentimental meaning to each an every one of them.

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